Natural Living
Tips and tutorials on making your own all-natural home and personal care products, growing and crafting your own herbal medicine, using essential oils and eliminating toxins from your home and life.
How to Make Traditional Fire Cider At Home
This traditional fire cider recipe is an easy (and cheap) herbal remedy to make at home and a potent natural medicine during cold and flu season. * * * When cold and flu season hits, I like to reach for natural remedies first. But I’ll be honest, if they don’t really...
DIY Hair Pomade with Rosemary Essential Oil
My husband was not blessed with great hair (sorry honey). He gets weird cowlicks, crazy bedhead and his hair becomes limp and lifeless once it dries after a shower. Naturally, he's come to depend on hair-styling waxes and pomades to keep the...
13 Culinary and Medicinal Herbs to Grow At Home
Herbs have a long history of being used for both culinary and medicinal purposes. They truly are the reason for the famous quote, "let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food." Here are 13 must-have culinary and medicinal...
Essential Oil Rollerballs for Spring and Summer
Make your own DIY essential oil rollerballs for spring and summer to soothe all sorts of ouchies and ailments, including bug bites, sunburns and more. * * * Rollerballs, roller bottles… I’m never quite sure what to call 'em, but what I do know is...
All-Natural Homemade Toothpaste Recipe
This all-natural homemade toothpaste recipe is made with just four simple ingredients that are good for both your body and your bank account! I’m on a personal mission to replace every commercially-made, toxic product in our home with homemade,...
How to Use Yarrow to Cure Almost Any Ailment
As far as weeds go, yarrow is definitely one you want growing in your garden. It’s a powerhouse of a plant, packed with medicinal properties to help cure everything from fevers and colds to bleeding, bruises and everything in between. Yarrow...
DIY Bath Salts with Essential Oils
I started making my own bath salts with essential oils about 3 years ago at Christmas. They instantly gained a permanent spot in my homemade repertoire. I couldn’t believe how easy they were to make! Just a few simple ingredients, a Mason...
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Hi! I’m Anna, and I’m a city girl turned modern homesteader who’s passionate about growing, cooking and preserving real food at home, creating my own herbal medicine and all-natural home and body care products, and working toward a simpler, more sustainable and self-sufficient life each and every day.
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